Reporter very rich, but not very punctual. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Thank you so much for joining us. Ac 360 with anderson starts right now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news tonight in the russia investigation. New reporting how interested the fbi seems to be in carter page. The story detailing how many times page has been questioned already, what hes been asked about and told investigators. Page himself, calling the encounters extensive. In a moment, the correspondent who broke the story. But we begin with the Health Care Replacement billion. 22 million fewer people with insurance by 2026. That, according to the congressional budget office. Also big Deficit Reduction. However, its that 22 million estimate that could be politically toxic to some republican moderates, one of
whom weighed in late tonight. So a lot to get to, starting with phil mattingly. What else is in the cbo report . Reporter you start with that tom line number, anderson. You know its important, p
that s robert mueller s charge at the end of the day. he doesn t have to do a public adam all will come out eventually. we re not sure robert muller after watergate, it comes out in the end. we re not sure that robert mueller is going to be there for the duration, because the president of the united states is doing everything he can to ensure that robert mueller won t be there. that s a really important fact to keep in mind. sessions resigns or is fired and a new attorney general is appointed, that person then who no longer has to recuse himself from the russia investigation, they are overseeing the robert mueller investigation, correct? presumably. i think if it gets to that, it is another can of worm that the trump administration opens. at least for democrats it is. well, i don t know. well, for republicans because that s a line that republicans might not want to cross. right. i think republicans certainly won t be happy with it. but i think that this
public session and you can issue a subpoena, but also donald trump has been talking about a witch-hunt. it seems to me that one of the things that the investigators in the house and the senate want to do is make sure that there is nothing that even could be interpreted as a witch-hunt. not make it a spectacle? well, first find out what these people have to say. find out what evidence they have. ask them are they going to be forthcoming and go on with the procedure that is normal investigative procedure that enables them to have a hearing in which the most evidence is produced. this is a first step. it puts the onus on manafort, it puts the onus on donald trump jr. to come up with information. if they don t, there are plenty of avenues left to the investigators to bring them before the full committee. adam, is it clear how much information the committees will get in terms of e-mails? i mean donald trump jr. has shown, you know, photographs of
was lying, which is in the washington post report. i think it makes it very clear that if there is no meeting, i think it makes it very clear this gentleman was lying. what if there was? yes. if there was, that s a big problem for jeff sessions in and of itself. adam? it is how you define it in first case. is a meeting a ten-minute conversation when everybody else is in a greeting line to shake the hand of the candidate trump? is that sufficient for kislyak to ask some questions of sessions and get some answers and then write a report? sessions that wouldn t be substantive. i think it is in the eye of the beholder what substantive means. under definition i m not sure can you see from one who is a trump supporter where it would raise serious red flags, literally and figuratively. it is like, wait a minute, this doesn t pass the smell test that there was any there there.
talking about the latest bombshell report from the washington post. adam from the washington post is with us to discuss. i want to read the department of justice statement to all of you. that just came out. it says, obviously i cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the washington post has not seen and has not been provided to me, but the attorney general stands by his testimony from just last month before the senate intelligence committee when he specifically addressed this and said that he never met with or had any conversations with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election. interesting. i mean, adam, you tell me your reading of that statement, but they re not standing by his statement from march saying he had no contacts with any russians during the campaign about the campaign. now it is the focus on his june statement which was am